the first serious attempt by an AGI to take over the world
Define “serious”. We already had Chaos-GPT. Humanity’s games are full of agents bent on conquest; once they are coupled to LLMs they can begin to represent the idea of conquering the world outside the game too… At any moment, in the human world, there’s any number of people and/or organizations which aim to conquer the world, from ineffectual little cults, to people inside the most powerful countries, institutions, religions, corporations… of the day. The will to power is already there among humans; the drive to conquer is already designed into any number of artificial systems.
Perhaps there is no serious example yet, in the AI world, of an emergent instrumental drive to conquer, because the existing agents don’t have the cognitive complexity required. But we already have a world with human, artificial, and hybrid collective agents that are trying (with varying stealth and success) to conquer everything.
Define “serious”. We already had Chaos-GPT. Humanity’s games are full of agents bent on conquest; once they are coupled to LLMs they can begin to represent the idea of conquering the world outside the game too… At any moment, in the human world, there’s any number of people and/or organizations which aim to conquer the world, from ineffectual little cults, to people inside the most powerful countries, institutions, religions, corporations… of the day. The will to power is already there among humans; the drive to conquer is already designed into any number of artificial systems.
Perhaps there is no serious example yet, in the AI world, of an emergent instrumental drive to conquer, because the existing agents don’t have the cognitive complexity required. But we already have a world with human, artificial, and hybrid collective agents that are trying (with varying stealth and success) to conquer everything.